Aya Asagiri (Magical Girl Site)

Aya Asagiri (Magical Girl Site) Gender: Female Type: A misfortunate bulled crybaby Age: 14 Species: Human Portrayed by: Yuko Ono Status: Alive Media of origin: Magical Girl Site First appearance: Magical Girl Site (manga)

Aya Asagiri is the main protagonist of the psychological horror magical girl manga/anime Magical Girl Site. She is introduced as a 14-year-old school student who is bullied at school and beaten by her brother at home. She discovers the Magical Girl Site, which gives her a magic stick for her misfortune which leads to some deadly consequences.

This article is not meant for the character to be “loathsome” (while likable) but only focused on the bad qualities.

悪い資質(Bad Qualities)

Note: This character is not meant to be as loathsome since she is supposed to be a good person, but will only focus on the mistakes and difficult purposes/decisions.

1. The main problem with Aya is that she is an incredibly generic "weak-willed" main protagonist who is bullied at school and beaten by her brother at home. Then she discovers the Magical Girl Site that gives her the magic stick for some purposes of her misfortune but this leads her to have deadly consequences.
2. Her character design while cute to look is very too similar to Aya Drevis from Mad Father, with the black threaded hairstyle, and her first name, as well.
3. She thinks being bullied at school and abused at home, would cause her to end her life by committing suicide, making her a generic "suicidal" character, who is weak to tell people.
   • As such, she was possibly written as an excuse that weak little girls or boys are punching bags.
4. She may be the main protagonist, but she is a very weak representation of what a Magical Girl could be.
5. She barely has fighting skills or gets any personal training to fight back against his brother and the bullies, instead, the series wants to focus more on the Magical Girl Site website which could have been misleading if it wasn't titled like the site's same name.
6. She is much of a coward, but a frightened girl compared to other male and female protagonists like her and proves that she lacks what makes magical girls so special.
7. Her dialogue while not as incredibly painful, is just that her lines are forced whenever she says “happy” and sorts.
8. The manga/anime tries to paint her as if Aya was the most misfortunate girl in the world, but the problem is...it shows in the most very executed way as possible.
   • Just as she acts like a complete moron and not a smart learner who tries to get away from her bullies by not telling her teachers. Instead, Aya teleports one of the bullies and led them to die on a train along with letting Kaname (who was crawling to get Kosame's magic stick to heal him from his neck bleeding after slashing Nijimi with Sayuki Ringa's sword in self-defense while he was stealing magic sticks from Sayuki's home) being kidnapped and sodomized through torture by Detective Kichiro Misumi.
9. She is a poor man’s rip off of Madoka Kaname, from Puella Magi Madoka Magica but the difference is that she would have been even more tragic if so than Aya was. Also, the other only difference is that Madoka is likable, strong-willed, and a great big sister to her little brother Tatsuya, while Aya is the same, but is just weak-willed while caring and protective while trying to be a good sister to her older brother Kaname and her biological twin sister Yatsumura.
10. She has no reason for her bullies and her brother Kaname, to treat her like a harmless punching bag.
    • Of course, she never bothers to tell her parents or teachers at all about her problems, EVER. Making Aya the weak girl that she is.
    • Also she doesn’t find out about her bullies and her adopted father, instead in the final chapter of the manga Aya just “rewrote” their memories “with good ones”, which is extremely forced as an attempt to find happiness.
11. We see Aya getting herself into trouble with having her ruined school shoes in the locker, having her school table vandalized, drowning in the toilet, and being punched, kicked, and even choked by her brother, Kaname, who wants Aya to help him relieve his stress from his father's "expectations".
12. She contemplates dying by getting herself killed on a train. But, is unable to do that in fear.
13. She lets her cat, Mya die in a train accident with Sarina and her friends, despite Aya's being unwilling to adopt the cat.
14. Similar to Ange Ushiromiya from Umineko When They Cry (notably its manga adaption), she is a crybaby who is too weak to do so and just cries into tears way too much in other for the readers to feel sorry about her.
15. Her magic stick's sole ability was to teleport things, making her even useless until its new abilities are shown in later chapters.
16. Despite being the main protagonist, she feels more like an assistant rather than like a fighter in later chapters.
17. She is later derailed (as opposed to being slenderized) as a muted girl (despite her already becoming a brave girl in later chapters), after witnessing Yatsumura's lifespan fade away and die.
18. Lots of IDIOT MOVES:
    • In the first chapter and episode of the anime, she shoots and teleports Erika and Shota to a nearby train to death, INSTEAD of taking them to a safe place or summons the police or her teachers or principals.
    • When Sarina told her to shoot the site admin, Juroku. INSTEAD, HOWEVER, she just TELEPORTED HER TO ANOTHER PLACE rather than turning her back into a normal girl.
19. At the end of the last chapter to add salt to the wound, she doesn't get to see her biological mother since Aya just wants to live with the Asagiri family (aside from the point, that her adopted father no longer pressured so hard to his son to study).

良い資質(Good Qualities)

1. Despite being generic, her character design is cute to look at.
2. Her voice acting (thanks to Yuko Ono) is admittedly good.
3. At least, she was never malicious or even unheroic at all and has a good heart since she doesn't do anything terrible.
4. She does become a brave girl in later chapters when she can fight against the site admins.
   • She did her best to realize the cruelty to Sarina and Kaname and wanted them to be happy.
5. She is a nice girl who wouldn't do those harsh things like Sarina, Kaname, or Rina.
6. She has more character development and personality since she is the main protagonist.
7. She is good friends with one of her classmates, Tsuyuno Yatsumura.
8. She is aware that Kaname was abused by his father for not living up to his school studies and often hears his lamentation in his room.
   • Thus, that abuse leads to himself to endure that by using Aya as a stress relief for the fun of it.
   • She also told Kaname that she tried everything to protect him and never wanted him to tear the family apart while wanting them to be happy.
9. She was able to learn that Kaname and his parents weren't her real family, but it was Yatsumura her biological twin sister, and Makoto Hinomoto her biological father, who took the form of a 14-year-old classmate of hers at school.
10. Thankfully, she prevented other people from misfortune in the new timeline and had Ichi defeat the King, so that she would have a happy life with them at the end of the series (of which she never murdered anyone including her two bullies).
11. She is a good character, just flawed.
    • That said, she may possibly get a separate page on the sister wiki.

トリビア (Trivia)

• Her design can be inspired by Ai Enma, from Hell Girl.
• It is said that in the last chapter, Aya is related to Ki Kogami and Tsukune Fukumoto, the main characters from Magical Girl Apocalypse.
• Her crying in chapter 103 would also become a meme titled “Babe, please stop.”

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